Accessing Buffalo Terastation NAS over a Virtual Private Network

Was working on a Buffalo Terastation Pro II at an office to which several machines have a mapped drive. The users who connect to the office location over a Virtual Private Network found the mapped drive was not available when logged in from home. Nor was a shortcut pointing at the machine name of the Terastation accessible eg. \\MyTerastation

The solution for those connecting via the VPN turned out to be to create a new shortcut pointing at the Terastation's IP Address instead eg. \\192.169.10.54

You can find your Terastation IP Address either using the LCD panel on the front of the Terastation or via it's web control panel by looking on the Home tab.

SanDisk 16GB Micro SD HC Card in ASUS P750

Quick post to note that the 16GB version of SanDisks Micro SD HC Card works in my ASUS P750 Windows Mobile PDA Phone. Prior to purchase I couldn't find anything to say that the P750 was compatible with 16GB Micro SD cards, only a few posts saying it works with some models of Nokia phones. If you're thinking of purchasing one for your P750 it should work just fine.

Windows Vista Device Drivers for Belkin F5D7000 Wireless G PCI Card

Windows Vista failed to recognise a Belkin F5d7000 Wireless G PCI card and as it is an old card the original driver disc only covers up to Windows XP.

Turns out there are currently 8 versions of the card as the Belkin support website explains. This particular card is a v3 [see the label on the card itself - v3000uk] and no specific Vista driver is listed on the Belkin site for the v3 card. I blindly downloaded the v8 driver and installed that after which Vista still protested the card was not working.

A Blog post by Chris Pietschmann suggests that the Atheros Wireless Network Adapter driver that comes with Vista will work for the Belkin F5D7000 card. Thinking this was worth a shot I restarted the machine to find that Vista had recognised the card. So it looks like all it needs is the v8 driver and a restart.